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Did Einstein believe Indians were stupid? His diaries suggest so

Did Einstein believe Indians were stupid? His diaries suggest so By  Robin Sinha ,  15 June 2018 Revelations made in a book compiling Albert Einstein's travel diaries have sparked a debate on the scientist's views of race and of people from India, Sri Lanka and China (Getty file photo) In 1946, physicist Albert Einstein, speaking at an American college that was the first to give degrees to black people, denounced racism in a speech that birthed one of his most popular quotes: "Racism is a disease of white people." Two decades earlier, he may have been diagnosed with the same disease had people then been aware of a bunch of diary entries the Nobel-winning scientist wrote during an Asia tour. Those diary entries have been made public recently and have sparked a debate on Einstein's views on race and of people from India, Sri Lanka and China. Indians, Einstein seemed to have believed, were "biologically inferior" and were hampered ...
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Martian dust storm puts Nasa's Opportunity rover into sleep mode

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Astronomers witnessed a black hole ripping apart a star, first ever

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